Cloud Data Platform Lead - Banking (Databricks on AWS)

ITTConnect; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

ITTConnect is seeking a Data Intelligence Platform Lead for a direct-hire, full-time role in a hybrid setting in Miami. The candidate will lead a 10-person team to modernize the bank's data platform from on-prem to a cloud-native stack on AWS, Databricks, and PySpark, aligning architecture, governance, and AI initiatives.

The role requires strong hands-on leadership across data governance, data quality, and platform operations while coordinating with security, compliance, and business

Qualifications

• 15+ years of IT experience.
• Experience leading data platform, data engineering, analytics engineering, or data architecture in complex environments.
• Hands-on with Databricks, AWS data services, SQL Server, Airflow, dbt, data ingestion patterns, orchestration, monitoring, and platform operations.
• Ability to translate governance, quality, metadata, lineage, access control, and observability into engineering standards.
• Experience migrating or modernizing from on-prem to cloud-based architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud data platform development and migration on AWS and Databricks.
• Define target-state ingestion, orchestration, processing, monitoring, security, and lifecycle for Databricks ecosystem.
• Oversee migration of on-prem data pipelines to governed, scalable data products.
• Coordinate DataSecOps practices for end-to-end monitoring and reliability.
• Drive AI governance, risk management, and identification of value-added AI initiatives.

Skills

Data platform leadership

Data engineering

Analytics engineering

Regulatory/compliance awareness

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud migration strategy

Tools

Databricks

AWS

SQL Server

Airflow

dbt

Unity Catalog

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

ITTConnect is seeking a Data Intelligence Platform Lead for a direct-hire, full-time role in a hybrid setting in Miami. The candidate will lead a 10-person team to modernize the bank's data platform from on-prem to a cloud-native stack on AWS, Databricks, and PySpark, aligning architecture, governance, and AI initiatives.

The role requires strong hands-on leadership across data governance, data quality, and platform operations while coordinating with security, compliance, and business